My friend Len Doyal, who has died aged 80, was for many years a senior lecturer in medical ethics at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospital Medical School, where his academic programme, Ethics and Law Applied to Medicine and Dentistry, was much praised for the way it integrated law and ethics with clinical practice.
He was appointed professor of medical ethics and law there in 1996 and became the first non-medical honorary consultant in a British hospital. Much in demand as a bridge between ethics and hands-on medicine, he became a longstanding member of the BMA ethics committee, before retiring in 2000.
